My female merit badges illustrate female
"rites of passage" as well as the myriad physical manipulations
women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty, such as weight
watching, whether or not to shave or wear makeup, etc. I've created
tiny replicas of female products, such as a birth control pill
pack and a pregnancy test. The miniature scale and meticulous,
hand-embroidered surfaces convey my impressions of growing up
female in our culture.

My work has been featured in Ms.
magazine, Harper's, Glamour, Surface Design
Journal, Westword and other publications. I was the
recipient of a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts
in 1998.

I've chosen 28 of the images that I
feel are most representative of female experience for a color poster that
can be ordered directly from this web site. It's 24 x 18 inches and
is printed on heavy cover stock.